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Caroline is a snot

posted 11 years ago by blueathena623
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I really like this movie, have watched it several times, but each time I dislike Caroline more and more. The writers try so hard to prove that she's skeptical and no-nonsense that she comes off like a brat. She's a 25 year old with no degree starting a brand new job that is paying, I believe, very nicely. Almost all of her early interactions with violet are her asking accusing questions that have nothing to do with her job. Why are there no mirrors? Where are the mirrors? Why do they keep a picture of the kids, why does the key not open that room, why do they have that room, etc.
believe me, I understand the purpose of her asking these questions and how they are to move the plot along and clue the viewers into things we should notice, but ugh, the writers should have been subtle. Instead Carline is like "hi you barely know me since I've only been here a minute but I'm going to grill you about the one door my key doesn't open."

[–] PinkFlyingPasta 11 years ago

I actually thought the woman was the snot. Telling Caroline she's probably never seen a garden, implying she's a liar when she says it's the garden state, asking about her religious views....

[–] brockmeeks 8 years ago

Violet/Cecile was 35-40 (?) in 1915. It looks like she is a very street smart person with a lot of common sense and cunning, but probably knows very little about life outside of the Louisiana bayou.

Being a servant was her job. Probably very little formal education, (possibly some when she became the white child) but studied her religion closely and knows human nature. She is over 100 and probably very wise.

The line about New Jersey being the Garden State was just something she did not know, so she brushed it off.

[–] VanillaLimeCoke 11 years ago

First off, the way I see it, if someone gives you a skeleton key, then they'd probably want you to have necessary access to all the rooms in the house.

Violet says to Caroline, "take care of my house."

So a rattling door in the attic that the skeleton key doesn't work on will raise some suspicions.